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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Growing Herbs Garden

Go ahead and dive into growing a home herb garden in sublime blissful
ignorance. Especially if you choose chives plants as your path to grow
herb garden plantings. I speak from earthy experience. Somehow my
chives plants were flourishing and bountiful, despite my many missteps
and blunders.

I admit a happy landed those chives plants
into my life some years ago. Yes, I stumbled into beginning my own home
herb garden by planting chives plants aplenty! Usually people are led
into planting an herb garden by their love of cooking with herbs. Nope.
Not me. While an enthusiastic novice gardener, herbs were totally
lacking in my cooking. But, an encounter with chives plants in my herb
home garden changed all that. The entire experience drew me to introduce
you to chives as an herb plant for your garden and share my tips and
discoveries gardening with chives herbs taught me.
Typically people think of chives as these dried up little green
pieces that look like cuttings from your lawn. Sadly little taste
survives in this dried version. Most of us are introduced to using
chives as an herb simply as a condiment for a baked potato...sour cream
with chives. Due to its past classification as a common household herb,
the fascinating features of chives as a plant and herb have been much
maligned. Here's what I unearthed as a beginner planting my own home
herb garden when I somehow mistakenly ordered 9 chives plants, but
intended to get only 1.
The Basics Of Chives Plants For The Home Herb Garden
Chives are part of the onion family but the flavor is much milder and
more subtle. Until you've tasted fresh chives you won't believe the
difference in taste from those dried up commercial counterparts sold at
the store! Chives grow in clumps, which is why they're always referred
to as plural. The upright green shoots growing from the clumps are
really called the leaves of the plant.
Growing chives is a dream for beginners gardening herbs at home. I'm
prime proof of how easy it is. In fact, for ease of growing I put them
in the category of daylilies because they're so indestructible no matter
the amount of rain or scorching heat. I was clueless how to plant my
chives plants (or any herb) in the garden when they arrived. Somehow
they've survived in the clay soil of hot Kentucky summers for almost a
decade now. You can even dig up their roots (actually little onion-like
bulbs), divide them, and replant them just like daylilies! Although
chives plants are best planted in a healthy mixture of soil, peat, sand
and compost, my ignorance proves chives plants do well as long as they
have plenty of sun and some water now and then.